The This Morning host was encouraged to jump as high as she could on the broom by a guest – who happened to be a ‘white witch’ – for a special Friday segment and it was surely a sight to behold.

The 57-year-old Loose Women panellist, who is currently a contestant on the BBC dancing show, has not spared viewers of This Morning an episode without mentioning this fact.

Ruth jumps up and down on a broomstick

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Her husband and co-host urged her to be ‘careful’ as she could injure herself for the weekend’s live shows.

After managing three little jumps the host joked that the ritual could get her ‘up the leaderboard’.

‘Well, I’m right at the bottom so the only way is up really,’ she told Kev Carlyon, a white witch who has been practising his craft since he was five years old.

Ruth followed the instructions of Kev the Witch (Picture: REX)

Cheeky husband Eamonn mocked his wife’s attempts on the BBC dancing competition, asking Kev: ‘I have a problem, my wife is in a competition and it’s highly unlikely that she is going to win it but is there anything we could do?’

As of the third week, Ruth was looming at the bottom of the leaderboard, just managing to get voters to keep her in.

Ruth and her dance partner Anton Du Beke (Picture: BBC)

As Strictly enters week three, Ruth has lingered towards the bottom of the leaderboard, managing to scrape through both weeks as viewers voted to keep her in.

Some This Morning viewers are little tired of the married couple’s constant mentions of Strictly.

Can he cast a spell to shut Ruth up about strictly come prancing #ThisMorning